Former president Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Washington hospital, and will be home for Christmas after he was admitted the day before with a fever. Mr Clinton is being treated for the flu, ...

Manchester United star Diogo Dalot has helped serve food to homeless people at a shelter in the city. The Portuguese defender, a £19 million signing from Milan, turned up unannounced with his partner ...

Santa Claus has been spotted all across the UK by observers on the ground eager to receive their Christmas presents.

Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died after chronic kidney disease aged 90. His contribution to cinema was ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region, who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ...

A racehorse dubbed the country’s unluckiest thoroughbred has finally finished first after appealing for some royal luck.

Among those who braved the elements on the Christmas Eve swim in Helen’s Bay were a couple who first met at the event last year.

An explosion at an ammunition factory in north-west Turkey left 11 dead and five injured on Tuesday morning. The blast occurred in Balikesir province, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency. The ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s website acknowledged the airline’s request for a ‘nationwide groundstop’.

A day later on Christmas Eve, residents received another email from Urang apologising “for the distress” caused and suggesting “to maintain the Christmas cheer” people with light displays should ...